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Certain persons may object to licences.
Justices shall examine into objections to licences, and adjudicate thereupon.
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4. It shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace of said city, town, or county, churchwarden or other inhabitant of said parish previously to transmit or then and there to deliver in writing to said clerk of the peace, or orally to state to said justices in sessions assembled, any matter or objection to such application, whether grounded upon the character, misconduct, or unfitness of the applicant, unfitness or inconvenience of the house or place, or number of previously licensed houses in the neighbourhood; and if any such objection shall be so transmitted or made, an entry thereof shall then be recorded by the clerk of the peace; and the justices in such sessions assembled shall then, or at some other convenient time to be appointed, proceed to consider, examine into, and adjudicate upon the truth, sufficiency, and validity of such objection, and for that purpose to examine on oath such applicant or other person as they may deem fit; and if such justices shall be thereupon satisfied of the truth and sufficiency of such objection, and shall deem it improper to intrust such applicant with a licence for such house, they shall, by order in writing to be duly entered by the clerk of the peace, prohibit such licence to be issued, and therein declare the reason or ground of such prohibition.
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